A Year of Transition: Faculty Recruiting at Chicago in 1946
基于新证据,考察1946年2月芝加哥大学经济系的教师招聘讨论,指出米尔顿·弗里德曼的入职是弗兰克·奈特派系与考尔斯委员会之间妥协的结果。
The year 1946 has been seen as a pivotal year of transition by historians of the Chicago Economics Department, in large part as a result of the arrival of Milton Friedman that year. This essay examines new evidence on department deliberations on faculty hiring in February of 1946. It argues that Friedman's recruitment reflected a compromise between Frank Knight and his followers on the one hand and those associated with the Cowles Commission on the other.